Friday, August 22, 2014

Six
Shooter Junction – Some of the people who collect taxes in McLennan
County, Texas, let the tax appraisers know they think they’re
crooked.

The
city dads at Robinson and the board members at McLennan County
Community College don’t aim to pay as big a share as the
Appraisal District has them down for in the coming fiscal year – up
by 29.77% in the college district’s case.

Robert
E. Cervenka, city manager at Robinson called for Chief Appraiser
Andrew J. Hahn, Jr., to step down “to allow for new direction
within the organization.”

Aside
from a 5% across the board salary increase for staff members in a
county that hasn’t seen even cost of living increases for public
servants in several years, there’s the issue of the nearly
breathtaking judgment of nearly a half-million dollars the appraisal
district sustained in a dispute with former landlord Hoppenstein
Properties of Amarillo over breaking a lease at its former downtown
headquarters across the street from the courthouse.